Class 12 · English
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Stephen Spender
The poet who pleads for reform for slum children.
Slum children
The pale, deprived pupils the poem describes.
Map on the wall
The image of a wider world out of the children's reach.
Lead sky
The image of the bleak, closed-in slum world.
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